The Indigenous People of Biara, IPOB has been blamed for the low turn-out of voters in the inconclusive November 6th Anambra Gubernatorial Election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said there is a whole state of fear that has been created by the politics of agitation for a separate state in this part of the country.
Sam Egwu, INEC’s supervising resident electoral commissioner to Anambra while speaking on Channels TV on Sunday evening said: “IPOB has been able to enforce the sit-at-home order over time. So the fear of IPOB has become the beginning of wisdom.
“We have had a problem with extremely low voter turnout. The voter turnout, I think, if you are scientific in terms of what we are seeing in many local governments, you are actually dealing with less than 25 per cent voter turnout, and this is not really good for our democracy.”
